Rashi, on Prov 26:9

“As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.”

“A thorn came up in a drunkard’s hand Just like a thorn that is stuck to a drunkard’s hand, so is the parable stated below stuck in the mouth of a fool to be for him as a thorn—yea, a painful thorn. Now what is the parable?...”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.